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Events for February 24

24-February-1483	Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan.
24-February-1674	Prataprao Gujar, a great Maratha warrior at the time of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
24-February-1786	Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India.
24-February-1867	Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born.
24-February-1880	Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born.
24-February-1899	Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born.
24-February-1922	Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab.
24-February-1924	Mahatma Gandhi released from jail.
24-February-1936	Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away.
24-February-1946	Mrs. Kashibai and Mrs. Babbai Lakshman, freedom fighters, were shot dead by the police.
24-February-1948	The State of Junagarh, whose accession to India was protested by Pakistan in the UN Security Council, voted in favour of India in a popular referendum held on 20 February.
24-February-1950	G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born.
24-February-1957	General Election ( 2nd) of India begins.
24-February-1961	Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
24-February-1986	Rukmini Devi passed away.
24-February-1988	Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
24-February-1994	Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%.
24-February-1995	25 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati.
24-February-1995	A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words ""incestuous adultery"", ""adultery coupled with cruelty"" and ""adultery coupled with desertion"" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian)
24-February-1995	Rishang Keishing (Cong-I) sworn in as the 15th CM of Manipur.
24-February-1996	Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA.
24-February-1996	S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India.
24-February-1997	Charles Shobhaj, the notorious murder suspect, to be deported to France after 20 years in Tihar jail.
24-February-2000	The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise.